42 years later: The Blizzard of '78 remains unrivaled

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4 жыл бұрын

Two massive winter storms of intense low pressure collided over Ohio and much of the Midwest. But, Toledo was near the bull's-eye.
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@michaelpowell5266 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in Toledo and actually lived through the blizzards of both 1977 and 1978!!!

@WECOOK1969 3 жыл бұрын

I was 9 years old and still remember the blizzard of ‘78

@toniwilson5435 3 жыл бұрын

This is (1) snow storm no one will ever forget , it was the biggest of all snow storms , it had a great impact on a lot of people , whether they were starving , stranded or died , it will never ever be forgotten , I was 16 years old back then 🤲🏾💕

@EdsterIII Жыл бұрын

When a snow storm of this impact hits, it cripples a community, a town, a city, even a state. People who weren't prepared could be stranded trying to go get some food, or worse they end up dying. These storms can be extremely dangerous. Especially when the TV's weather teams say that only a few inches are likely, but the storm stalls, or moves/changes direction and slams into your city. That recently happened here a few months back. We were only supposed to get 2"-6" and we ended up with 18"-21" and it stunk! Almost 2"-3" an hour most of the late evening and the early morning. 😴 Woke up to snow halfway up my patio windows. 30-50 MPH winds made it next to impossible to even attempt to drive in. Our storm ended after the initial drop, but some of them can keep going, and THAT'S SCARY!

@roudyralpher9539 3 жыл бұрын

I was 8 yrs...My fam used the snow ❄️ to make 🍦....and melted/filtered some snow for water to drink..

@theyangview1898 Жыл бұрын

1978 blizzard sent me to California At 69 yrs old and Glad I left but still have a soft spot in my heart for my home city. T town back then taught me the value of the Protestant work ethic which served me well all my life

@TrustNone35 Жыл бұрын

Good move. The winter here still sucks. Most years are not like they were 30 or 40 years ago but every once in awhile we get socked with a really bad winter.

@gregjames9875 2 жыл бұрын

I delivered the Citizens Journal during this. This was the first time I saw Ball-Lighting. I was delivering papers and it blew the tree in half. I'm running, and watching it snow horizontally. I get home and tell my parents, who are asleep, something strange is happening. So my mom gets up to help me, while my dad tells her I just want help. Mom drives me to the front of the block. I get out. She can't see me as soon as I take 4-5 steps. I deliver the block and she drives me to the beginning of the next block. We do this through the whole route. When we get home my dad is sitting on the steps laughing, while saying, "Mary, you were right in helping him". The pants I wore were frozen. My pants stood up in the corner of my room for 45 minutes.

@OKittenPlayz 3 жыл бұрын

My dad just told me about this, and he said he remembered being stuck in his roomy trailer home for a very long time... He said "Thankfully we had food and water! But many didn't..." My dad also said he had absolutely no connection to the outside world... It was absolutely terrifying, he said.

@latonyasmith683 2 жыл бұрын

I was seven! No school was awesome! Plenty of snow to play in! Stressed out grown ups!🤣🤣🤣🤣

@nelliesfarm8473 3 жыл бұрын

I remember. I was 8 years old ! We lived on the west side and couldn't even open our front door

@TrustNone35 Жыл бұрын

Same here I was 9. I just remember drifts up to the roof of our house. I have a picture of me standing on one and I could walk right over to the roof of our house.

@bradbyington6662 2 жыл бұрын

I was a ten year old in Port Clinton. We broke up old furniture to keep the fireplace lit.

@Barbarra63297 Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget driving my roomate to her work and seeing lightning and hearing thunder and snowing and me saying 'maybe we should go back' but she said she had to get to work at St. V's. So I dropped her off and continued to my work, only three of us showed up at work out of 70 some people, big mistake. Could only make it as far as a friend's house and was stuck there for five days.

@dd-nv6sw 3 жыл бұрын

My buddy and I hitchhiked 5 miles to the only store we knew would be open. We got a couple of cases of beer and food. Got rides immediately both ways from citizens with 4-wheel drive trucks that were out plowing snow. Good times!

@Cricket-zp6wi 2 жыл бұрын

My power was out for just a few hours. A friend of mine, who lived only 1/4 mi away, was on a different circuit, & had no power for 5 days. Thank Heaven for gas stoves!

@schallrd1 3 жыл бұрын

I experienced it and was really something. Everything shutdown for days digging out. It was a winter to remember.

@markdukett404 4 жыл бұрын

I was ten when that storm hit good memories

@CJM27 2 жыл бұрын

I had just walked several miles to work, only to have them tell me they where not going to open that day. So, I ended grabbing a snow shovel and went out and made as much money as possible, helping shovel people's drives out from that blizzard.

@Humblepye Жыл бұрын

The blizzard of 2022, I have seen flurries dump more snow. Mid Eastern Michigan. It was not even close to 78, I was 12 years old, 5 foot 7 inches tall, snow was to my neck in my driveway.

@jeffreywright2294 2 жыл бұрын

Seen a few of the guard and army walking around the neighborhoods the crazy time

@robertw4230 3 жыл бұрын

Those army guys were my boys from the 27th engineers , ft.bragg NC .

@horstebreedow8608 2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if they were regular or airborne Engineers

@robertw4230 2 жыл бұрын

@@horstebreedow8608 27th engineers are airborne from ft.Bragg.

@horstebreedow8608 2 жыл бұрын

I was asked to join up with the airborne Engineers from a Sapper company. I didn't really even understand what they were. Now I know Equipment on demand.

@robertw4230 2 жыл бұрын

@@horstebreedow8608 sappers play with C-4 💥😀

@jacobg.witmer 2 жыл бұрын

I was born 21 years later.

@jasonraczkowski6001 3 жыл бұрын

I was 5 years old and I remember this

@BrittanyS143 3 жыл бұрын

I was not born yet but soon 80. There was another one I thought to. My dad was stuck at the Jeep plant and the helicopter took them food.

@brenlynn1064 Жыл бұрын

I believe; a less nastier "Blizzard of 1977," none the less, created havoc & chaos... I live/lived along the I-75 corridor approximately 45 miles south of the "Mighty Mackinaw Bridge." All I can say, "Thank the Lord for snowmobiles/lg farming tractors-great neighbors & small town community(now a city,) because that's how we were able to navigate when anyone needed, especially in 1977 & 1978!"~

@gordoncheyne5567 Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget our first floor windows and doors were blocked with snow. Dark. The second floor was amazing. It looked like dairy queen vanilla on steroids. I'll never forget it

@Phildakidd419 2 жыл бұрын

I was born 28yrs later after this !!

@dononeal3313 Жыл бұрын

I was fourteen years old, lots of fun trying to walk the dog in thirteen inches of snow

@macnchessplz Жыл бұрын

Let’s see what happens this weekend. There might be some ‘78 type Blizzard but it won’t be in Ohio. It’ll be a huge mess tho….. Every winter- it’ll be like the Blizzard of ‘78. 2022? In Michigan or Wisconsin?

@East419forLife 2 жыл бұрын

Mike Navarre might have declared a level 2 for this.

@iwin1833 Жыл бұрын

You couldn't call for help back then . If you got stuck in the snow you had a long walk to someone's house

@iamgriff Жыл бұрын

My Dad beat the tar out of some guy that parked in our parking spot he shoveled out back in 1978. That happened on Western Ave. Lol, one of my first, and fondest memories

@brenlynn1064 Жыл бұрын

Although, I don't condone violence... Back in the day, a few "good ole knuckle sandwiches 👊😵‍💫," regarding 'blatant disrespect' usually did the trick🤣!~

@jeffreywright2294 2 жыл бұрын

My HS days !

@keithlea6804 Жыл бұрын

I was in Minnesota and loved it. That was a good winter for a kid to play inq

@allancales5787 3 жыл бұрын

I was 17 and living on poplar St East Toledo

@kevindecoteau3186 Жыл бұрын

Carter just entered hospice.

@iwin1833 Жыл бұрын

I was 13 years old then . And it was really bad . Actually thought we would die

@jeffreywright2294 2 жыл бұрын

Could not open the door

@mikeodonnell6799 Жыл бұрын

it also helped to make NASCAR what it became "the fight"

@earlgarcia6106 2 жыл бұрын

I wasn’t born yet and never been to Ohio so I’m not sure why I’m watching this

@amygriesinger6285 Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure either

@glennwilson4054 Жыл бұрын

I was 20 and had just bought a new F250 4x4 with a snow plow. I didn’t sleep for a full 48 hours. Plowing parking lots and streets and pulling or pushing cars!

@jarrelljimerson3346 2 жыл бұрын

Was that the Anthony Wayne Bridge @ 0:35?

@jarrelljimerson3346 2 жыл бұрын

Also, @ 3:49, what was the Toledo mayor's name and how long was he in office at that time?

@maherite1977 2 жыл бұрын

@@jarrelljimerson3346 That would be Mayor Doug DeGood. He took office in 1977 at the age of 30 and would be mayor until 1983.

@jarrelljimerson3346 2 жыл бұрын

@@maherite1977 three two year terms?

@maherite1977 2 жыл бұрын

@@jarrelljimerson3346 Correct - elected in 1977 and re-elected in 1979 and 1981.

@jarrelljimerson3346 2 жыл бұрын

@@maherite1977 when was the mayorial term extended from two to four years?

@allancales4959 2 жыл бұрын

I walked from My house to the Northend

@timothyowensby 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in February of 78

@allancales4959 2 жыл бұрын

I was 17

@seanpaula8924 2 жыл бұрын

Fun times for a kid

@tajmulhall 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah we got married and I don’t even remember it

@stormchaser1971 Жыл бұрын

She was dead on correct about everything, especially the crime

@russianapple0 Жыл бұрын

man wtf is going on in ohio

@briandm33 2 жыл бұрын

But see you've gotta understand they didn't have Snow fences or traction to block the winds like they do now. Heck it would be bad bc when snow blows it just keeps going until it hits something to stop it. That was the case back then bc of that fact. Buildings would have such a tremendous amount on it bc of all that snow building up over it due to nothing blocking the winds.